AMUSEMENTS

Taihape Daily Times, 12 November 1917, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

_ THREE STA*& As America is our ally, we ought t» take some interest in that great nation’s national game, baseball. T((is. is a strong feature of the clcA r er Triangle Play ‘ ‘ The Pinchhitter. Avhich. is screening at the Three Stars. The star is Charles Ray, avlio takes the part of a country lout Avho goes to college and is there on account of his aAvkAvardness, made the butt of the students, his self-confidence has been destroyed by a relentless father \\ffio thought him no account from the first and never hesitated to say so. Sylvia Bremer, a pretty Australian actress makes a great impression. She is daintily pretty and acts with vim and charm. The play is intensely interesting and the last scenes are full of gmotional thrill, and very exciting. There are Avondcrful scenes of the turbulent American crowds at a great baseball match, and the college students having their own sweet will. The supporting cast is strong and even, and the photography, as usual with Triangle K.E. features, proA’ides some ncAA* ideas. The programme also contains, Gaumont Graphic, Jack Ducks. . Vit. Comedy, A Tour of the Grand T Chartreuse, and 20,000 Feet Under the Sea.

“THE BIRTH OF A NATION.” Among the fathers of America lived a poet leader who dreamed a new vision of humanity—that out of the conflicting interests and character of thirteen States, stretching their territories from the forests of the North to the tropic jungles of Florida there J \ could be built one mighty people. Lord Cornwallis, the British Commander, had surrendered at Yorktown, Virginia, and the allied armies of the kingdom of France and the original thirteen States, by name—New Hamp

shire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island

Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia Maryland, North and South Carolina, and Georgia. Through 75 years of growth, ’ and conflict, these States clung to their individual sovereignty, feeling with jealous alarm the slow but resistless growth of a national spirit with the body of the Federal Union. One and Inseparable. Now and for Ever.” The issue which the people had not dared to face—whether the State ,or the Union should ultimately have supreme rule—was joined in 1861 over the problem of the Negro. The South held with passicnjfc ate conviction, that the nation was -a republic of each State free and sovereign. The North, under the leadership of Abraham Lincoln, held that the Union w r as indestructible and its sovereignty supreme.